Many CNG customers have found a way to ease winter heating bills. They spread the cost of winter heating evenly over the entire year through the Budget Payment Plan. If you are not one of many now using our Budget Payment Plan, you now have an opportunity to join. Budget amounts are calculated by using the history of gas usage at your address, normal weather conditions, and current and anticipated gas rates. The Budget Payment Plan is available to all residential or commercial gas heating customers. It is helpful as well as a free service for our customers. More importantly, it eases the strain of high winter bills and helps balance your budget. You can call us now, and we can tell you how much your budget amount will be and enroll you.

To avoid the seasonal fluctuations of energy bills that can be caused by hot or cold weather extremes, Budget Billing spreads your bill payments evenly over 12 months. We compute your budget on your average yearly consumption from the last 12 months and divide the total into 12 equal monthly payments. Your monthly budget payments will be uniform for 11 months, based on your usage history. The bill for the 12th month will include a reconciliation, an increase or decrease in the amount due to reflect your actual usage and energy charges for the year. If there is a balance owing, you pay in full. If you've overpaid, the credit balance will be rolled into your next budget year. Several times a year we will analyze your account, and adjust the payment, if necessary, so it will more closely conform to your actual cost at the end of the budget period.

Here is an example of a twelve-month regular bill vs. a budget bill: